Keith A. Bender

About

I am an applied labor economist who is interested in a variety of research areas including subjective wellbeing, economics of aging, educational/skills mismatch, wage determination and the interrelationship between employment contracts and health. More recently I have been doing work on the political economy of energy transition, particularly where it intersects with labour markets and skills.

Employment

• University of Aberdeen Jaffrey Professor of Political Economy
  2026 - Present
• University of Aberdeen SIRE Professor of Economics
  2012 - 2026
• University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
  1999 - 2012
• University of Aberdeen

Education

• Duke University PhD
  1990 - 1994
• Furman University BA
  1986 - 1990

Projects & Funding

• Performance Related Pay and Health: An Interdisciplinary Study Economic and Social Research Council
  2019 - 2021

Publications (82)

• Nuclear Decommissioning, Supply Chains and Skills: Achievements, Opportunities and Challenges
  2025 DOI: 10.57064/2164/26521
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• Performance-related pay and sorting into stress
  Oxford Economic Papers 2025 DOI: 10.1093/oep/gpaf008
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• A place-based approach to measuring a just transition
  Energy Research & Social Science 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104236
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• Managing the unwanted
  Gender, Work and Organization 2025 DOI: 10.1111/gwao.13247
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• Regional Planning for a Just Transition - A case study for the North East of Scotland
  2025
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• Just Transition and Nuclear Decommissioning in Dounreay: Stakeholder Perspectives
  2024 DOI: 10.57064/2164/25130
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• Initial report to Just Transition Commission: Just transition activities, planning, and policy landscape in Aberdeen and the North East
  2024
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• Just Transition Policy in the Context of Nuclear Decommissioning in Dounreay
  2024 DOI: 10.57064/2164/25131
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• Does How You Get Paid at Work Affect Your Time Off Work? The Relationship between Performance-Related Employment Contracts and Leisure Activities
  2024 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4786056
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• Performance-Related Pay
  Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics 2024 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_316-1
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• Performance-related pay, mental and physiological health
  Industrial Relations 2023 DOI: 10.1111/irel.12334
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• Stress in performance-related pay
  Stress 2023 DOI: 10.1080/10253890.2023.2283435
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• Measuring Just Transition : Indicators and scenarios for a Just Transition in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire
  2023 DOI: 10.57064/2164/22364
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• Response to Scottish Parliament Economy and Fair Work Committee - on Just Transition in the North East and Moray
  2023
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• Just Transition for Workers and Communities in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire: Rapid Evidence Review
  2023 DOI: 10.57064/2164/19887
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• Salivary cortisol in university students after the COVID-19 pandemic
  Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.cpnec.2022.100160
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• Athena SWAN Gender Equality Plans and the Gendered Impact of COVID-19
  Thereza Raquel Sales de Aguiar, Shamima Haque, Keith A. Bender
  Gender, Work and Organization 2022 DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12784
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• Performance-Related Pay and Objective Measures of Health after Correcting for Sample Selection
  Discussion Paper Series 2022
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• Performance-Related Pay and Objective Measures of Health after Correcting for Sample Selection
  SSRN 2022
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• Performance-Related Pay and Objective Measures of Health after Correcting for Sample Selection
  2022 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4114524
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